Hello,
I've worked a lot to get my server working but now I discovered that I choose wrong language support when I installed CentOS 5. It works in HTTPD to set the default charset to UFT-8 but when I try to use PHP functions as ucwords() and when I try to phrase XML it doesn't work as it should so I need to set the locale? or language? to the default one for Swedish so I can use the Swedish å,ä and ö letters.

I've tried with:
localedef -i sv_SE -f ISO-8859-1 sv_SE
export LC_ALL=sv_SE
export LANG=sv
and similar but it doesn't work.

So please, I'm greatful for anything that could help me solve this.

Thanks,
Oskar

Hello again,
Here is what happens when I try to change in the way I mentioned in my first post:
[root@localhost ~]# localedef -i sv_SE -f ISO-8859-1 sv_SE.UTF-8
[root@localhost ~]# export LC_ALL=sv_SE.UTF-8
[root@localhost ~]# export LANG=sv_SE.UTF-8
[root@localhost ~]# locale
LANG=sv_SE.UTF-8
LC_CTYPE="sv_SE.UTF-8"
LC_NUMERIC="sv_SE.UTF-8"
LC_TIME="sv_SE.UTF-8"
LC_COLLATE="sv_SE.UTF-8"
LC_MONETARY="sv_SE.UTF-8"
LC_MESSAGES="sv_SE.UTF-8"
LC_PAPER="sv_SE.UTF-8"
LC_NAME="sv_SE.UTF-8"
LC_ADDRESS="sv_SE.UTF-8"
LC_TELEPHONE="sv_SE.UTF-8"
LC_MEASUREMENT="sv_SE.UTF-8"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="sv_SE.UTF-8"
LC_ALL=sv_SE.UTF-8
[root@localhost ~]# shutdown -r now

Broadcast message from root (pts/0) (Tue Oct 16 13:15:29 2007):

The system is going down for reboot NOW!
login as: root
root@xxx.xxx.xxx.xx's password:
Last login: Tue Oct 16 13:11:38 2007 from xxx.xxx.xxx.xx
[root@localhost ~]# locale
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_NUMERIC="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_TIME="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_COLLATE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MONETARY="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MESSAGES="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_PAPER="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_NAME="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_ADDRESS="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_TELEPHONE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MEASUREMENT="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_ALL=
[root@localhost ~]#

In other words, after restart it gets back to what it was before and before restart it doesn't have any affect on the system...

/Oskar

I think setting LANG is enough for what you want to do. Now to save LANG after reboots you need to put the "export LANG=sv_SE.UTF-8" into ~/.profile or ~/.bash_profile or ~/.bashrc, whatever your distro uses. Also there is no need to reboot. You can just logout and login again.

Hello,
OK, The problem is that apache, mysqld and so on runs on different users and as I understood it that only changes the startup for the root user? I have tried what you suggested and it didn't work...

/Oskar

If you want to set LANG globally, add the "export ..." command in /etc/profile, so it will be used for all users.

BR

Hello,
I added LANG=sv_SE.ISO8859-1 to ~/.bash_profile first and then also ~/.bashrc but it didn't work as I hoped it would. However, sv_SE.ISO8859-1 is showing up if I write in locale but the XML functions and the PHP function ucwords() still can't display swedish words correctly. What can I do more to solve this?

Thanks in advance,
/Oskar